The EconomistOctober 5th 2019 5
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Contents
The world this week
8 A summary of political
andbusinessnews
Leaders
11 Robo-investing
Masters of the universe
12 Greece’s debt odyssey
End extend and pretend
12 Kashmir
Vale of tears
13 Technology and politics
Openseason
14 Politicalrhetoric
Downwiththepeople
Letters
16 OnBrexit,Afghanistan,
popes,Einstein,
Columbus,T.Boone
Pickens
Briefing
18 Robo-investing
Marchofthemachines
United States
21 Texas won’t turn blue
22 On impeachment
23 A union retreat
24 Kennedy 4.
24 University admissions
25 Alligators in the desert
26 LexingtonDougJones
The Americas
27 Peru’s president v congress
28 Chile’s lithium-battery
dream
28 Inuit orthography
30 BelloArgentina’s difficult
roadtoredemption
Asia
31 India’s courts and Kashmir
32 Elections in Afghanistan
33 Bumpkins’ brides in Japan
33 Halal-crazy Indonesia
34 Making Indian computer
chips
35 BanyanThe next phase in
theSouthChinaSea
China
37 Violence in Hong Kong
38 Cutting-edge weapons
40 ChaguanParading 70
years of Communism
Middle East & Africa
41 Crisis in Lebanon
42 Roads to ruin in Iraq
43 Netanyahu makes his case
43 Angola’s oil decline
44 Reform in Ethiopia
LexingtonDoug Jones, a
prophet of Deep South
moderation, illustrates
liberalism’s present pains
and future promise,
page 26
On the cover
Forget Gordon Gekko.
Computers increasingly call
the shots on Wall Street:
leader,page 11. How machines
manage markets: briefing,
page 18
- China at 70—pomp and
protests Official celebrations
for National Day showed a
worrying contempt for history:
Chaguan,page 40. Weapons on
parade, page 38. Hong Kong
riots, page 37 - Big Tech and the state gird
for battleThe American
government is lining up against
the technology companies,
page 55. Europe has so many
complaints it hardly knows
where to begin, page 56 - Europe’s anti-populist
backlashAfter a series of
reverses, the populists are down
but not out, page 45. Politicians
who invoke “the people” are
usually up to no good: leader,
page 14 - What would Trump’s gators
cost? The president would like
to reinforce his wall with a
reptile-infested moat. We tot up
the bill,page 25